STR8 UP: 10,000 Little Steps to Healing, Inc.

07/21/2025

07/16/2025

🎉 I earned the emerging talent badge this week, recognizing me for creating engaging content that sparks an interest among my fans!

07/10/2025

We love you.

07/04/2025

Postponed please stay tuned for a new date

🌿 Medicine Picking Day – Postponed 🌿

We’re rescheduling our upcoming Medicine Picking Day with Kokum Elsie and the STR8 UP: 10,000 Little Steps to Healing, Inc. team. A new date will be shared soon!

Thank you for your understanding—we’re looking forward to gathering together when the time is right.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Krystle at krystle.johnstone@elizabethfrysask.org.

07/03/2025

The opposite of addiction is connection.
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06/30/2025

🎉 Facebook recognized me as a top rising creator this week!

06/30/2025

This morning, STR8 UP Helpers took part in powerful, life-saving Naloxone and Narcan training with Barb and Maryellen from the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.

Thank you both for your passion, your wisdom, and your ability to turn education into empowerment. You didn’t just teach us—you reminded us why this work matters. Lives are saved when knowledge is shared. 💉💛

06/21/2025

06/20/2025

Since 2012, STR8 UP: 10,000 Little Steps to Healing, Inc. alongside numerous community organizations across the prairies, has mourned the loss of incarcerated loved ones to addiction, gang violence, and systemic injustices.

On June 17th, we gathered to honor the countless men and women who have tragically succumbed to these challenges.

It was a day of deep reflection and heartfelt remembrance.

We extend our sincere gratitude to everyone who joined us in holding space for the forgotten soldiers, the misunderstood, and the broken individuals whom we steadfastly support and love.

Huge shout out to Saskatoon Indian & Metis Friendship Centre for hosting our event.

06/16/2025

Dear STR8 UP Members, and all who believe, support, and celebrate their transformational journeys.

Transformation of one’s relationship with self, others, all of creation and with one’s personal Sacred Mystery is not the responsibility of a few. It is a task required of all humanity and creation.
It is about restoration, healing, wellness, and balance.

STR8 UP has struggled to discover what is inherent in everything and everyone to support and foster this kind of transformation.

What we have found, is that it is a Spiritual journey, not only for recovering and addicted gangsters,but one that is necessary and possible for everyone and anyone.

All other essential and required resources will ultimately collapse if the Spiritual transformation is abandoned. No amount of power, control, codependency, or enablement will promise or assure its success. We presently live on a planet, a world, a culture that is pleading for healing and transformation.

STR8 UP has never viewed the past lives and journeys of the members as dreadful and meaningless, or their future as horrid and predetermined.

STR8 UP sees the journey of life as an ongoing process of hope, unity, and gratitude. The future of the members of STR8 UP as well as the organization of STR8 UP is one of development, maturity, and continual new birth.

This future is discovered in the Spiritual realities of Honesty and Humility, leading to the service of the Common Good. These values need to be discovered and nurtured throughout one’s life.

Numerous members have declared that coming to STR8 UP is like coming home. It is a space where imperfection is recognized and accepted, a space where forgiveness abounds. Where we can be at home with self and others.

We feel at home because of our limitations, aware that this includes belonging and fitting in. This new home, imperfect as it may be, discovers and defines who we are and the person we wish to become.

The secret is in the telling and listening to everyone’s story.

STR8 UP’s sensational journey of over 20 years has met with numerous unknown and untold insights, recoveries, discoveries, and transitions. It has also met with many slips, relapses, deaths, and failures. These are inevitable. Yet there remains, for many addicted male and female gangsters, the never- ending hope of new possibilities which will lead to freedom for love, for life, for self and others.

Father Andre

05/19/2025

STR8 UP is hiring if you’re interested please send resume and cover letter to Chantel.huel@str8-up.ca

Mistst be able to pass Correctional security clearance and have valid driver’s license.

STR8 UP Outreach Helper

About STR8 UP
STR8 UP supports individuals in taking control of their lives and freeing themselves from gangs, addictions, and criminal street lifestyles.

Purpose of the Position

The Outreach Helper plays a vital role in supporting STR8 UP members who are committed to personal transformation. This role involves building strong, healthy relationships with members and guiding them through their healing journey. Outreach Helpers work with members in correctional facilities and in the community, providing mentorship, support, and connections to individualized resources.

Key Responsibilities
- Build supportive, trust-based relationships with STR8 UP members
- Uphold STR8 UP’s core values of Honesty, Humility, and Accountability
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with justice system professionals
- Conduct member intake, case planning, and self-assessments
- Maintain accurate records of intakes, case plans, attendance, and referrals
- Provide one-on-one life skills coaching and problem-solving
- Support members by attending key appointments and meetings
- Assist members with obtaining housing, ID, education, employment, financial aid, and other essential needs
- Model a positive, prosocial lifestyle
- Participate in STR8 UP activities, presentations, and programming
- Help members access additional services and community opportunities
- Collaborate with the team to support organizational goals

Knowledge Requirements
- Community resources and support systems
- Addictions and high-risk lifestyles
- Justice system processes and supports
- Crisis intervention techniques
- Cultural diversity and Indigenous teachings, culture, and history
Skills and Abilities
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to build and maintain respectful, professional relationships
- Sound decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Time management, organization, and prioritization
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Adaptable and open to continuous learning
- Proficient with computers and basic office software
- Stress and boundary management
- Holds a valid driver’s license

Personal Attributes
- Honesty: Demonstrates transparency and truthfulness in actions and communication
- Humility: Embraces equality, openness to learning, and respects others’ experiences
- Accountability: Takes ownership of actions, upholds ethics, and maintains integrity
- Dependable and professional
- Maintains healthy boundaries
- Culturally aware and sensitive
- Conscientious, patient, and empathetic
- Solution-focused and generous in spirit